Requesting Info On My Luger

[jamese]

You have a nice 1939 S/42, which by the way are hardest to find. You might not want to shoot it alot.
As I recall there were only about 38,000 of them made.

Jim

[Toywithdeath]

Originally Posted by jamese

You have a nice 1939 S/42, which by the way are hardest to find. You might not want to shoot it alot.
As I recall there were only about 38,000 of them made.

Jim

Why are they hard to find? And do you have anymore info on it? I figured it was a shooter as it doesnt look that nice, which I figured was because it is origonal.

[Edward Tinker]

Originally Posted by Toywithdeath

Why are they hard to find? .

because they only made 38,000 of them



That sounds like a lot, but take out the ones destroyed during the war, take out the ones destroyed after the war, take out the ones tossed in the ocean by GI's (US, Canadian and Brits) who thought they'd get into trouble, then take into account guns destroyed because of idiots, crime etc and there are probably 10-5% still around.... So, say 10%, that is 3,800 guns... (all a WAG btw)

So point is, some guns like the 1940 / 42 are much easier to find, as they made maybe 180,000 of them, so that leaves 18,000 of them in the USA....



Ed

[Toywithdeath]

Ahh, thanks for the info. What do you think the gun is worth? Rough estimate?